 | 1868 - 796 pàgines
..." Prosperity belongs to the blessings of the Old Testament, adversity to the beatitudes of the New Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you '11 find more lamentable airs than triumphant ones." This is translation with a vengeance ! ' Next... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1858 - 594 pàgines
...the Old Testament ; adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction^and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - 780 pàgines
...adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidences mure in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is -not without... | |
 | John Baillie - 1858 - 424 pàgines
...of the precious word of life. " If you listen to David's harp," says Bacon, in one of his essays, " you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." Judson was now learning experimentally the same truth. " I have thought of late," he writes,... | |
 | John Todhunter - 1920 - 180 pàgines
...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of...describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon." This, in the Essay OJ Friendship, is quaintly expressed. " The Parable of Pythagoras is dark,... | |
 | 1920 - 514 pàgines
...Ett förstucket löfte tycks ligga i det väl uteslutande litterära 'shall1 i sådana uttryck som: Even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols (Molloy, 101). Såväl Po. (47) som Mö. anse, att 'shall'- satsen endast skenbart är en huvudsats,... | |
 | 1923 - 346 pàgines
...blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer evidence of God's favor. Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not... | |
 | Hendrik Poutsma - 1922 - 252 pàgines
...practice, sometimes has shall where ordinary English now prefers will. See MURRAY, sv shall, 8, g. Even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's...you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols. FRANCIS BACON. (*)• An't please you to go up, sir, you shall find him with two cushions under his... | |
 | 1882 - 792 pàgines
...truth, not to establish any favorite theory, we might ask if the Psalms were not sung; and Bacon says, "If you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols." But this passage shows that modern Ritualists cannot plead primitive practice for their absurd intoning... | |
 | Carlo Formichi - 1924 - 404 pàgines
...Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of...you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols (4). And the •pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than... | |
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Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as... 
